Twitter藍色漏洞似乎可以讓使用者不付費就保留他們的複選标記

Twitter首席執行官Elon Musk介紹了改進後的Twitter藍色訂閱服務，作為欺詐内容的解藥。然而，當這項服務在去年年底推出時，它催生了大量虛假賬戶，導緻至少一家制藥巨頭損失了數十億美元的股票市值。現在Twitter使用者表示，這款苦苦掙紮的産品(全球付費使用者不到30萬)還有另一個問題，指向一個非常基本的失敗:免費驗證徽章。

多名個人資料中帶有Twitter Blue驗證标記的使用者告訴Gizmodo，他們已經幾周甚至幾個月沒有為Twitter Blue付費了。一位名為“THE Cumshot Gamer”的Twitter使用者分享了一段視訊，在視訊中，他們導航到自己賬戶的Twitter藍色部分。它會立即提示使用者訂閱Twitter Blue。他們的公開資料仍然顯示一個藍色的複選标記，上面有一個懸停彈出框，上面寫着“此帳戶已被驗證，因為它訂閱了Twitter藍色”。

The Cumshot Gamer在2月6日寫道:“這個藍色複選框和它的免費就像一場希臘悲劇。”

一、Twitter Blue訂閱有什麼問題?

這個漏洞似乎是Elon Musk的疏忽，他對Twitter Blue能夠帶來的收入寄予了很大的希望，以償還他為收購該公司而貸款的利息，盡管該産品幾乎沒有帶來什麼财務成果。目前還不清楚這個問題有多普遍。Twitter沒有回應Gizmodo就此事發表評論的請求。自從Twitter大規模裁員取消了公關部門後，Elon Musk就通過自己的賬戶處理了公司的大部分公關工作。

THE Cumshot Gamer告訴Gizmodo，盡管他們已經幾個月沒有為這項服務付費了，但他們還是成功地更改了自己的頭像，并通過了重新驗證檢查。

the Cumshot Gamer在接受Gizmodo采訪時表示:“如果你在訂閱期結束前一周更改了頭像，Twitter就會删除‘驗證’賬戶資訊的檢查辨別。當我這樣做的時候，驗證過程持續到了我的訂閱結束日期，當他們完成‘驗證’時，我得到了支票，哈哈。”

另一名Twitter使用者、匿名黑客組織的黑客Aubrey“Kirtaner”Cottle說，他也找到了打敗該系統的方法。Cottle告訴Gizmodo，他隻花了一個月的錢購買了Musk改進後的Twitter Blue服務。他說，他去年12月訂閱了Twitter，今年1月取消了訂閱，他的個人資料上仍然有一個Twitter藍色複選框。

“免費藍色驗證的第二個月，哈哈哈，”Cottle在2月6日釋出。(華東CIO大會、華東CIO聯盟、CDLC中國數字化燈塔大會、CXO數字化研學之旅、數字化江湖-講武堂，數字化江湖-大俠傳、數字化江湖-論劍、CXO系列管理論壇（陸家嘴CXO管理論壇、甯波東錢湖CXO管理論壇等）、數字化轉型網，走進燈塔工廠系列、ECIO大會等)

另一位Twitter使用者Alex Kerker告訴Gizmodo一個類似的故事。

“我的訂閱到期了，我決定不再續簽，過期後第二天我登入Twitter時，它還在。”Cottle說。

Kerker向Gizmodo确認了他們的Twitter Blue訂閱到期的消息。該通知于1月24日發出。截至2月8日，他仍然有Twitter藍色複選框。

二、Twitter Blue賺了多少錢？

在撰寫本文時，Twitter Blue預計将從全球不到30萬的訂閱者(其中18萬在美國)中産生2800萬美元的年收入，這還不到Musk所說的他希望該項目帶來的30億美元收入的1%。程式員Travis Brown開發的Twitter Blue使用者清單顯示了類似的數字。

當Gizmodo告知Brown這個免費徽章漏洞時，他說:“我一直在想可能是某種漏洞。有很多賬戶似乎在訂閱和未訂閱之間來回切換。”

這些賬号中就有“THE Cumshot Gamer”。Brown的分析似乎證明了“the Cumshot Gamer”所描述的過程，即他們暫時失去了認證狀态，但後來又恢複了認證狀态，盡管他們沒有付款。

Brown告訴Gizmodo:“他們在1月初的幾天裡顯示為非Blue，但你提供的其他使用者名自注冊以來似乎一直顯示為Blue。”

Twitter藍最初于2021年推出，價格為每月3美元，功能有限，但從未對公司的利潤做出過重大貢獻。廣告收入占Twitter收入的絕大部分。Musk在2022年10月接管Twitter後，提高了Twitter進階産品的價格，并承諾對産品進行全面改革，引入一些新功能。大多數已宣布的功能尚未實作，但該計劃可以吹噓該平台上“經核實”的塔利班成員數量有所增加。

最近，Musk承諾與Twitter Blue訂戶分享一種形式的廣告收入，這與傳銷計劃進行了比較。Musk在Twitter上匆忙宣布了針對“Twitter網紅”的收入分享計劃，但沒有詳細說明該計劃的實際運作方式，這給使用者留下了更多的問題而不是答案。鑒于使用者報告的免費複選，如果Twitter Blue甚至不知道誰先付錢，它怎麼知道該給誰付錢呢?

我們不知道有多少Twitter Blue使用者已經停止為這項服務付費，但仍設法保留他們的标記，這可能會增加“付費”使用者的總數。沒有内部資料，實際上是不可能确認的。但顯而易見的是，Musk有“巨額資金問題”，而一個漏洞不斷、使用率低的訂閱服務不太可能解決這些問題。

原文：

Twitter CEO Elon Musk presented the revamped Twitter Blue subscription service as an antidote to scam content. When the service launched late last year, however, it spurred a raft of fake accounts that cost at least one pharmaceutical giant billions in stock market value. Now Twitter users say the struggling product—which has fewer than 300,000 paying subscribers worldwide—has another problem, one that points to a very basic failure: free verification badges.

Multiple users whose profiles boast Twitter Blue verification checkmarks have told Gizmodo that they haven’t paid for Twitter Blue in weeks or even months. One Twitter user going by “THE Cumshot Gamer” shared a video in which they navigate to the Twitter Blue section of their account. It immediately prompts them to subscribe to Twitter Blue. Their public profile still shows a blue checkmark, which has a hover-over popup that reads “This account is verified because it’s subscribed to Twitter Blue.”

“The plague of this blue checkmark and it also being free is like a greek tragedy,” THE Cumshot Gamer wrote on February 6.

What’s wrong with Twitter Blue subscriptions?

The bug appears to be an oversight for Elon Musk, who has placed significant hopes in the revenue that Twitter Blue could generate in order to service the interest on the loans he took out to buy the company, though the product has borne little financial fruit. It’s unclear how widespread the problem could be. Twitter did not respond to Gizmodo’s request for comment on the issue. Since Twitter’s massive layoffs eliminated its public relations department, Elon Musk himself has handled the bulk of the company’s public relations via his own account.

THE Cumshot Gamer told Gizmodo that they were able to successfully change their profile picture and pass a re-verification check despite not having paid for the service in months.

“If you change your profile picture a week before your subscription is up, Twitter removes the check badge to ‘verify’ account details,” THE Cumshot Gamer told Gizmodo. “When I did it, the verification process lasted past my subscription end date and when they were done ‘verifying’ I got the check back, lol.”

Another Twitter user and hacker affiliated with the hacktivist group Anonymous, Aubrey “Kirtaner” Cottle, says he also has found a way to beat the system. Cottle told Gizmodo that he only paid for one month of Musk’s revamped Twitter Blue service. He said he subscribed in December, cancelled in January, and still has a Twitter Blue checkmark on his profile.

“MONTH TWO OF FREE BLUE VERIFICATION LOL,” Cottle posted on February 6.

Another Twitter user, Alex Kerker, told Gizmodo a similar story.

“My subscription expired, and I decided not to renew it,” Kerker said. “When I logged on to Twitter the day after expiration, it was still there.”

Kerker shared a confirmation of their Twitter Blue subscription expiration with Gizmodo. The notice was sent on January 24. He still has a Twitter Blue checkmark as of February 8.

How much money does Twitter Blue make?

As of this writing, Twitter Blue is projected to generate $28 million in annual revenue from fewer than 300,000 subscribers worldwide—180,000 of those are in the U.S.—which is less than 1% of the $3 billion that Musk has said he hopes the program will bring in. A list of Twitter Blue subscribers developed by programmer Travis Brown shows a similar number.

“I’ve wondered about some kind of bug,” Brown said when informed of the free badge bug by Gizmodo. “There are a lot of accounts that seem to go back and forth between subscribed and unsubscribed.”

Among those accounts was “THE Cumshot Gamer.” Brown’s analysis appears to confirm the process described by “THE Cumshot Gamer” in which they temporarily lost and later regained their verified status, despite nonpayment.

“They showed up as not-Blue for a couple of days in early January, but the other usernames you provided seem to have been continuously shown as Blue since signing up,” Brown told Gizmodo.

Initially launched by Twitter in 2021 at a price of $3 a month with limited features, Twitter Blue has never significantly contributed to the company’s bottom line. Advertising comprises the vast majority of Twitter’s revenue. After Musk took over Twitter in October 2022, he raised the price of the premium Twitter tier and promised an overhaul of the product that would introduce a number of new features. Most of the announced features have yet to materialize, but the program can boast an increase in the number of “verified” members of the Taliban on the platform.

Most recently, Musk promised a form of ad-revenue sharing with Twitter Blue subscribers, inviting comparisons with MLM schemes. In the hastily tweeted announcement of the revenue sharing program for “Twitter influencers,” Musk provided scant details on how it would actually work, leaving users with more questions than answers. Given users’ reports of free checkmarks, how will Twitter Blue know who to pay if it doesn’t even know who is paying them first?

We don’t know what percentage of Twitter Blue users have stopped paying for the service while managing to keep their checkmark, potentially inflating the total number of “paid” subscribers. Without internal data, it’s effectively impossible to confirm. But what is clear is that Musk has “big money problems” and a leaky subscription service with low uptake is unlikely to solve them.

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